×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Fire Training Towers and props

Fire Training Towers and props

Fire Training Towers and props

(OP)
Anyone know the IBC code sections that Fire Department training towers fall under? Would they be classified as nonbuilding structures? Or temporary structures? The structures aren't permanently occupied and are unihabitable.

Some fire departments appear to have found a loop hole where they follow an nfpa standard and don't submit drawings for building department approval. Any insight would be appreciated, especially from those in seismic zones like California.

RE: Fire Training Towers and props

I won't name our client, but we do the structural work for fire training towers and we follow the applicable BUILDING code (IBC, CBC, FBC, etc).  Thankfully our client appreciates a good design and does not like to skimp via code loopholes.

RE: Fire Training Towers and props

I've done a tower once before - we also did what PMR06 did and followed the local building code.

It may not be considered inhabitable from a human perspective, but humans work in the building and with any structure designed for some type of human occupancy you should follow the "building" code.]

The main difference in these buildings is that you try to get the water inside to go outside of the stucture where in most buildings it is the other way around.

 

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources